I am not exactly a Newbie....

[baron]

My rather long but pathetic story......sit back and keep vaping...

 After giving up the weed for about 7 months (from Dec. 23rd 2014), No. 1 son came to stay with us for about 3 months last year (sorting out marital problems) and left his packet of baccy in the kitchen, and yes, I fell into temptation and rolled one up.
Sad to say I started smoking again, not as much as before, but I was smoking roll-ups and ready mades again, but also using e-cigs with my MVP2 and VTRv2.

Sadly my MVP2 has gone u/s as the 510 pin has come away from the wire inside the device (too much gently pulling up to make a connection over the year or so of use) and I am rather miffed about that.
I may try to repair it at some stage since the battery is still full of life, but atm I just keep it in the car as a battery pack for my spare mobile phone, which I use to phone up the wife when at a Supermarket to ask her ''why am I here and what was I supposed to buy ?''

However, I kicked myself in the botty this year, and last Monday I decided I needed to get the interest back into vaping full time again.
After some searching about, watching reviews etc. I bought the Black Eleaf iStick 30W dinky jobbie, unfortunately not from Myepack as they were mostly out of stock, but from Pure Mist (for £31.99 free delivery) both of which arrived the very next day. I did buy the gel sleeve for it from Myepack though.

Most impressive delivery by both.

This thing is a lot smaller that it appeared in the review videos...

However, I rather lurve it, coupled with my Nautilus (with new BVC coil) and a tank full of Banoffee Pie @ 5mg nicotine, running (both) at about 12W- 20W....I like to 'play'.
Plus another Nautilus tank full of Vanilla Toffee on the VTR v2.

Smashing little device, so I have now regained the interest in vaping again, and blow me, it is a darned sight harder to give up smoking ciggies the second time around.....*sigh*, but I think I have done it.

So I have given a fair bit of my State Pension money to some online Firms for more spare coils ,Aspire ET-S (BVC new coils), iClear 30S, Aspire Nautilus (new BVC coils) along with a pack of Ten BDC coils from FT (ordered before I knew about the BVC ones...duh) for the Nautilus, plus a selection of new juices to try out, one of which is the Banoffee Pie flavour.

I now have my eye on the Innokin MVP3, iStick 50W, Mini Nautilus tank (and a couple of others), but I would rather lash out the money (in stages) than spend it on tobacco products.

So I have now returned to this Forum (sorry about that) so that I can pick brains for advice and stuff...

Ok, congrat's to those that managed to stay awake long enough to get to this bit, and I understand those that packed it in after 3 seconds to read another more interesting thread...

[Deleted]

Hi baron I read your story fully and very well done on what you've achieved. I like the BDC coil better on the nautilus as the other one makes me cough like an old dog. Weird as on the Atlantis I love em

[baron]

Thank you tedster for taking the time to reply...

Atm, I am running a 1.7ohm on the iStick at 20W and the VTR 1.7ohm at 12W, both using the Nautilus.

The Atlantis is another tank I am interesting in, now that I have a 30W device.

[Get Off My Cloud]

Welcome(back) baron keep plugging away mate, every cig avoided is a result

[dalealan]

You're definitely not the only one on here who has succumbed to falling back on the stinkies wagon now and again baron and you'll not be the last. It's the first one that always brings back the cravings for me so I try to avoid peeps who smoke when first trying to quit them again. Nicely worded post too. Fingers crossed you keep off them for good this time. G'luck.

[pipeman01]

Hi baron, and back so to speak!

I really like the nautilus (I have 3 of the mini's as for me it's a great size) along with a couple of other tanks. I think the lesson you've learnt here is that you need to have something to fall back on if a device fails. I realise that's tough on a state pension, but if you have 2 devices and a couple of tanks then at least you have time to replace if ones dies. Seems you have learnt that lesson well

Hope all goes well this time around, while vaping is a great NRT if the wheels come off the addiction needs feeding

Also, if time allows, significant savings can be made buying from Gearbest / Fasttech, although you need to factor in 3-4 weeks delivery times.

HTH

[Chrissie]

Welcome back baron

[Deleted]

Good decision with the Istick baron, great little mod for the money and a lot of fans on the forum for these.
I've just took delivery of some juices from your location, a company called Isle of custards, which smell delicious and are steeping away at the moment.
Good luck with keeping off the fags

[phatfil]

well done for not giving up on giving up. fwiw i tried to quit on a few occasions in the past myself, coming up to a month off the backy now, and ive been mixing up circa 12mg mixes and am about to step down to circa 8mg (when my current mixes are depleted) one day at a time, one day at a time...

[prr]

baron you might like to up your nic level a bit in the beginning

[baron]

Thanks for the replies...appreciated.

Geez paulo, I didn't even know we had some locally produced juices, so thanks for that as I will definitely take a look at their flavours...

Yep, I need to get interested in vaping full time again, and needed a new 'toy' to do that, and it appears to have worked, and the iStick (with the gel sleeve) is a nifty bit of kit.

I also need to find more different flavours to keep the interest up too. I have tried plain fruit flavours and just really don't get on with them, and still have 10ml bottles of Orange, Watermellon and Pineapple that I had to resort to as (because of spending money on ciggies) my stock of favoured juices had nearly run out.

I like sweet flavours, and just discovered Banoffee Pie for example, so that now is another favourite.

So thanks again for the welcomes..........it is nice to be back..

[baron]

Apr 25, 2015 12:52:20 GMT prr said:

baron you might like to up your nic level a bit in the beginning

I used to run at 18mg, but now I take whatever is in stock from zero (rarely) to about 5/11/18mg, but am trying to keep the 'mg' down since I am now running at higher wattages than I used to, which was about 8W or so.

Is this right, the higher the 'mg' and wattage, the higher the throat hit/nicotine intake ?
Or am I just muddled in my thinking..?

[MrDJ]

hi baron and welcome back.

strangely enough (and it was a shock to me too) i found it easier giving up this time as the kit and juices have got so much better in the last 3 years.
35 years a smoker.
first time around was on sky cig-a-like and also a patch and managed 3 months until work stress took over and it only took 1 to get me back on them.
back then it was backy or menthol flaves only.

this time i got a Blu (sky cig) pro kit that took liquid and my world changed hopefully forever.
3 weeks in i upgraded to a istick30 with mini nautilus and the rest was history. 51 various bottles of liquid to chose from and i havnt touched a real one for 9 weeks. pro is used for nic hit at work on 18mg and the rest of the time im on 0 nic with every flave imaginable.

YOU CAN DO IT!

[Q]

Apr 25, 2015 12:16:09 GMT baron said:

My rather long but pathetic story......
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Ok, congrat's to those that managed to stay awake long enough to get to this bit, and I understand those that packed it in after 3 seconds to read another more interesting thread...

Only joking, well done on your 2nd attempt, keep at it, you KNOW it's worth it

[letsavit]

Welcome back baron

I had a short relapse, vaping is no silver bullet but it was the shortest relapse I have ever had..... And I have had a few, Im almost an an expert at giving up smoking, done it enough times...!